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LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

OF THE 

AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 

FOR 


FOREIGN MISSIONS. 





















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CONSTITUTION, 

L1WS AND REGULATIONS 


OF THE 


AMERICAN BOARD OP COMMISSIONERS 

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FOR 


FOREIGN MISSIONS- 


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ACT OF INCORPORATION. 


lease all or any part of their lands, tenements, or other property 
for the benefit of their funds, and may have a common seal which 
they may alter or renew at pleasure. Provided , however, that 
nothing herein contained shall enable the said corporation, or any 
person or persons, as trustees for or for the use of said corporation, 
to receive and hold any gift, grant, legacy, or bequest, heretofore 
given or bequeathed to any person in trust for said Board, unless 
such person or persons, could by law have taken and holden the 
same, if this act had not passed. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted , That the said Board, may an¬ 
nually choose from among themselves, by ballot, a President, a 
Vice President, and a Prudential Committee; and, also, from 
among themselves or others a Corresponding Secretary, a Re¬ 
cording Secretary, a Treasurer, an Auditor, and such other offi¬ 
cers as they may deem expedient; all of whom shall hold their 
offices until others are chosen to succeed them, and shall have 
such powers and perform such duties as the said Board may order 
and direct; and in case of vacancy by death, resignation, or oth¬ 
erwise, the vacancy may in like manner be filled at any legal meet¬ 
ing of the said Board. And the said Treasurer shall give bond 
with sufficient surety, or sureties, in the judgment of the Board, 
or the Prudential Committee, for the faithful discharge of the du¬ 
ties of his office. 

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted , That all contracts, and deeds, 
which the said Board may lawfully make and execute, signed by 
the chairman of said Prudential Committee, and countersigned 
by their clerk, (whom they are hereby authorized to appoint,) and 
sealed with the common seal of said corporation, shall be valid in 
law to all intents and purposes. 

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted , That the first annual meeting 
of the said Board shall be on the third Wednesday of September 
next, at such place as the said William Bartlet may appoint; and 
the present officers of said Board shall continue in office until oth¬ 
ers are elected. 

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted , That the said Board, at the first 
annual meeting aforesaid, and at any subsequent annual meeting, 
may elect by ballot any suitable persons to be members of safd 
Board, either to supply vacancies, or in addition to their present 
number. 

Sec. 6. Be it further enacted , That the said Board shall have 
power to make such bye-laws, rules, and regulations, for calling 
future meetings of said Board, and for the management of their 
concerns, as they shall deem expedient; provided the same are not 
repugnant to the laws of this Commonwealth. 

Sec. 7. Be it further enacted , That one quarter part of the 
annual income from the funds of said Board shall be faithfully ap¬ 
propriated to defray the expense of imparting the holy Scriptures 
to unevangelized nations in their own languages: Provided , that 
nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to defeat the 


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express intentions of any testator, or donor, who shall give or be¬ 
queath money to promote the great purposes of the Board: Pro¬ 
vided , also, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as 
to restrict said Board from appropriating more than one quarter of 
said income to translating and distributing the Scriptures whenever 
they shall deem it advisable. 

Sec. 8 . Be it further enacted , That not less than one third of 
said Board shall at all times be composed of respectable laymen; 
and that not less than one third of said Board shall be composed 
of respectable clergymen; the remaining third to be composed of 
characters of the same description whether clergymen or laymen. 

Sec. 9. Be it further enacted , That the Legislature of this 
Commonwealth shall at any time have the right to inspect, by a 
Committee of their own body, the doings, funds, and proceedings 
of the said Corporation, and may at their pleasure alter or annul 
any or all of the powers herein granted. 

In the House of Representatives , June 19 th, 1812.—This bill 
having had three several readings, passed to be enacted. 

TIMOTHY BIGELOW, Speaker. 

In the Senate , June 20 th, 1812.—This bill having had two read- 
ings, passed to be enacted. 

SAMUEL DANA, President. 

June 20th, 1812.—By the Governor, Approved. 

CALEB STRONG. 

Copy—Attest, ALDEN BRADFORD, 

Secretary of the Commonwealth. 

N. B. The Associates, alluded to in the foregoing act, were the 
Hon. John Treadwell, LL. D., the Rev. Timothy Dwight, 
D. D. LL. D., President of Yale College, Gen. Jedidiah Hun¬ 
tington, and the Rev. Calvin Chapin, all of Connecticut. 


LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD. 
Adopted by the Board Oct. 4, 1832. 


I. Object of the Board. 

The object of the Board is, to propagate the gospel among un¬ 
evangelized nations and communities, by means of preachers, cat¬ 
echists, schoolmasters, and the press. 

II. Members of the Board. 

1. Corporate members. —The Corporate members of the 
Board, are those who have the right of voting at its meetings. 




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These, according to the Act of Incorporation, must be elected 
by ballot, and only at the annual meetings. Not less than one 
third of the corporate members must be laymen. 

The corporate members, besides being under special obligation 
to attend the meetings of the Board, are pledged to attend the an¬ 
niversary meetings of Auxiliary Societies, when required by the 
Prudential Committee, as a Deputation from the Board; their trav¬ 
elling expenses, in going to and returning from the places of such 
meetings, being paid out of the Treasury of the Board. 

2. Corresponding members .—Clergymen and laymen, residing 
in distant parts of the United States and in foreign lands, may be 
elected by ballot, as Corresponding members of the Board; who, 
though it be no part of their official duty to attend its meetings, 
or take part in its votes or resolutions, yet, when occasionally pre¬ 
sent, may assist in its deliberations, and by communicating infor¬ 
mation and in other ways, enlighten its course, facilitate its opera¬ 
tions, and promote its objects. 

3. Honorary members. —Clergymen, on paying fifty dollars, 
and laymen, on paying one hundred dollars, at any one time, shall 
be entitled to the privilege of attending the meetings of the Board, 
and of assisting in its deliberations as Honorary members; it being 
understood, however, that the right of voting is restricted, by the 
charter, to the corporate members. 

4. The certificates of membership for corporate members 
shall be signed by the President and Recording Secretary of the 
Board; for corresponding members, by the Secretaries for the 
■correspondence; and for honorary members, by the Treasurer. 

III. Officers of the Board. 

1. The Officers of the Board shall be a President, Vice Presi¬ 
dent, a Prudential Committee, as many Secretaries as are neces¬ 
sary, a Treasurer, and two Auditors. These must be chosen by 
ballot, and they hold their offices until others are appointed to suc¬ 
ceed them. 

2. It shall be the duty of the President, and in his absence of 
the Vice President, to preside at each meeting of the Board, and 
to perform such official acts, either during the session of the Board, 
or at any other time, as shall be assigned to him by any bye-law 
or vote of the Board. In the absence of both the President and 
Vice President, the meeting shall be called to order by the oldest 
member present, after which a presiding officer shall be chosen for 
the occasion. 

3. The Prudential Committee shall consist of such a number 
of members, as the Board from time to time shall think necessary; 
and three of the members shall constitute a quorum for the trans¬ 
action of business; provided such a notice of the meeting shall 
have been given to each member, as the Committee shall direct by 
a general rule. It shall be the duty of the Secretaries and Trea- 


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surer, though they may not be members, to attend its meetings 
when requested by the Committee, and assist in its deliberations. 

One of the members of the Committee, or some one of the Sec¬ 
retaries of the Board, shall be appointed clerk of the Committee, 
who shall keep a full record of their doings, and sign all their 
official acts. The records above described shall be always open 
to the inspection of the Board. 

It shall be the duty of the Prudential Committee to carry into 
effect all resolutions and orders of the Board, the execution of 
which shall not have been assigned to some other committee;— 
to cause the more inviting fields for missionary enterprize to be 
explored, if necessary;—to appoint the places where missions 
shall be attempted, and determine the scale upon which they 
shall be conducted, and superintend them;—to appoint, instruct, 
and direct all the missionaries of the Board;—to prescribe where 
the Treasurer shall deposit the monies of the Board, and the times 
and modes of investments and remittances;—to draw orders au¬ 
thorizing the payment of monies from the Treasury ;—to ascertain 
the state of the Treasury at least twice a year, and as much oftener 
as they see cause;—to appoint agents at home and abroad, with 
such powers and duties as they may think are demanded by the 
best interests of missions;—and, generally, to perform all duties 
necessary, in their opinion, to promote the objects of the Board ; 
provided the same shall not be contrary to any resolution or bye¬ 
law of the Board, nor to the Act of Incorporation. They shall 
annually elect a chairman and clerk, the former of whom shall 
keep the bond of the Treasurer. 

The Committee shall prepare their annual Report in such form, 
that, after presenting it to the Board, the different leading parts of 
it may be referred to different committees,and thus the w hole Report 
be brought under the distinct consideration of the Board, previous 
to its acceptance. They shall also cause to be printed, in con¬ 
nection with their, annual Report, an abstract of the Treasurer’s 
accounts, and such other documents as they judge proper to be 
included in that publication. 

4. The number of Secretaries shall be determined by the Board, 
from time to time, in view of the exigencies of its affairs. 

The Recording Secretary shall keep accurate minutes of the 
proceedings of the Board, and enter the same in a book of Records, 
and certify all such doings of the Board as are to be known only 
by an inspection of the Records. 

The other Secretaries shall act as the organs of the Board 
in conducting its written correspondence, both foreign and 
domestic, except what relates immediately to the Treasurer’s de¬ 
partment, and they shall prepare and edit its official publications, 
and perform such other duties as the Board or the Prudential 
Committee shall particularly direct; dividing the appropriate labors 
of their department among themselves, under the advice and direc¬ 
tion of the Prudential Committee. 


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5. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to take the charge o'? 
all monies paid into the Treasury of the Board, and to give re¬ 
ceipts therefor;—to keep safely all the funds and monies of the 
Board, and all notes, bonds, deeds, and other evidences of proper¬ 
ty;—to keep fair and accurate accounts of all monies received and 
expended;—to make out annually a statement of receipts and pay¬ 
ments, and of the condition of the several permanent funds, for the 
information of the Board;—to invest and deposit monies and make 
remittances and payments, according to the direction of the Board, 
or of the Prudential Committee;—to exhibit his books, accounts, 
vouchers, and evidences of property, whenever required, to the 
Board or the Prudential Committee;—to conduct the correspond¬ 
ence relating immediately to his department; and perform such 
other acts as are necessary to the faithful execution of the duties 
of his office, 

6. It shall be the duty of the Auditors to examine the books 
of the Treasurer thoroughly and particularly, at least once a year; 
and, if they shall find the accounts correctly kept and accurately 
cast, the payments well vouched, the balance satisfactorily stated 
and accounted for, and the evidences of property duly exhibited, 
to give their certificate accordingly; which certificate they shall 
enter at large in the Treasurer’s books, and transmit or deposit a 
duplicate thereof with the Recording Secretary, to be by him en¬ 
tered in his book of records. 

7. In addition to the officers above named, there shall be a certain 
number of General Agents, appointed by the Prudential Commit¬ 
tee for particular districts of country; whose duty it shall be, within 
their respective fields, to co-operate with the agents of other soci¬ 
eties, with the pastors of churches, with ecclesiastical bodies, with 
the officers of the Board and its auxiliaries, and with other friends of 
missions, in promoting a missionary spirit, and in drawing out the 
resources of the Christian community, for the speedy promulgation 
of the gospel through the world. The General Agents shall be 
entitled to the privileges of honorary members of the Board. 

IV. Meetings of the Board. 

1. There shall be an annual meeting of the Board, the time and 
place of which shall be fixed by vote at the annual meeting next 
preceding. Three members shall form a quorum for adjourning 
or dissolving the meeting, and five to transact business. 

2. If, in the opinion of the Prudential Committee, it shall at any 
time be dangerous to the health of the members of the Board, or on 
any other account highly inexpedient, to meet at the place ap¬ 
pointed for any annual meeting, the Prudential Committee are au¬ 
thorized to appoint some other place for such meeting, by sending 
a notice of such change to at least six of the religious newspapers, 
published in different parts of the country, and also a printed notice 
to each corporate member of the Board. 


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3. The meeting shall be continued from day to day until all 
the business before it has received attention. No member, who 
shall be present at any meeting, shall consider himself at liberty to 
leave, until he shall have applied to the Board and obtained per¬ 
mission ; and members, who may consider it necessary to be absent 
during any part of a session, shall be expected to give as early 
notice as possible of their contemplated absence. 

4. The successive daily sessions shall each be opened with 
prayer. 

5. Committees may be selected from each of the three classes 
of members. 

6. There shall be an annual sermon preached before the Board 
by a person appointed at the previous meeting. A second preacher 
shall be appointed to preach in case of his failure, who shall be 
first on the list of candidates for preachers at the succeeding anni¬ 
versary. Should both be prevented from preaching, the Prudential 
Committee are authorized to procure a preacher. 

7. Each corporate member of the Board, who shall apply to 
the Treasurer for the same, shall be allowed twenty cents a mile 
for travelling expences, in attending any annual meeting of the 
Board, reckoning the distance only one way, and the usual route 
from his place of residence to the place of meeting; provided, that 
no one shall receive payment for more than two hundred miles.* 

8. In case of an adjourned meeting, the Recording Secretary 
shall give suitable notice of the same in the religious newspapers. 

9. It shall be the duty of the President, or in case of his death, 
or inability, of the Vice President, to cause a special meeting to 
be called, through the Recording Secretary or one of the other 
Secretaries, on the written application of the Prudential Com¬ 
mittee, or any seven other members of the Board. The time of 
holding the meeting shall be such, as the officer who calls the 
meeting shall appoint, and the place, that at which the next 
annual meeting is appointed to be held. On receiving an appli¬ 
cation as above described, the officer to whom the same is directed 
shall cause a seasonable notice of the time and place of meeting 
to be sent to each member, and also cause a notice of the same 
to be inserted in at least six of the religious newspapers published 
in different parts of the country. 

* This is one of the old bye-laws of the Board. The design is (o place it within the 
power of those members, who are unable to pay their travelling’ expenses, to attend 
the annual meeting from year to year. It is understood that no one will receive a 
greater sum, than the amount of his actual expenses in going to and returning from the 
meeting.—The utility of this regulation is seen in the fact that members, who otherwise 
could not have been present when the sessions were remote from their places of resi¬ 
dence, have been enabled to attend the meetings, with few interruptions, for many 
successive years. The greater part of the members, even of those who make it a rule 
to attend every meeting, receive nothing in return for their travelling expenses. 


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V. Missionaries of the Board, and tiieir widows and 

CHILDREN. 

1. Every person received by the Prudential Committee as a 
candidate for missionary service, is expected to hold himself at the 
direction of the Committee, both in respect to the field of his future 
labors, and the time of his going forth ; it being understood, how¬ 
ever, that his inclination, as well as his particular qualifications 
and other circumstances, shall be kindly and attentively con¬ 
sidered. 

2. Applications for employment as missionaries or assistant 
missionaries, must be made to the Prudential Committee, who shall 
carefully inquire into the character and qualifications of the appli¬ 
cants, whether males or females, before taking them under the 
patronage of the Board. In special cases, they are authorized to 
spend money in preparing the candidate more fully for the service 
assigned him. 

3. A missionary is one, who has been ordained a minister of 
the gospel, and is actually under the direction of the Board. All 
others, whether licensed preachers, physicians, schoolmasters, 
printers, etc. are assistant missionaries , but, in the Reports of the 
Prudential Committee, shall generally be designated by their spe¬ 
cific occupations. 

4. Whenever any missionary or assistant missionary has, in the 
judgment of the Prudential Committee, violated the instructions 
given him, whether before or after entering the field of his mission¬ 
ary labors, or has failed to perform any duty reasonably required 
of him, they are authorized to dismiss him, in case they deem it 
expedient, from the service of the Board. In all cases, however, 
where the missionary or assistant missionary has actually been 
named in any of the official publications of the Board, as having 
been received under its patronage and direction, the individual so 
dismissed shall have the privilege of submitting his case to the 
revision of the Board, at an annual meeting. 

5. No missionary or assistant missionary of the Board shall 
engage in any business or transaction whatever for the sake of pri¬ 
vate gain; nor shall any one engage in transactions or employ¬ 
ments yielding pecuniary profit, without first obtaining the consent 
of his brethren in the mission; and the profits, in all such cases, 
shall be placed at the disposal of the mission. 

6. The missionaries and assistant missionaries are regarded as 
having an equitable claim upon the churches, in whose behalf they 
go among the heathen, for an economical support, while perform¬ 
ing their missionary labors; and it shall be the duty of the Board 
to see that a fair and equitable allowance is made to them, taking 
into view their actual circumstances in the several epuntries where 
they reside. 


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7. It shall be the duty of the Board to provide for the support 
of superannuated and infirm missionaries and assistant missiona¬ 
ries, in such manner as shall best comport with the missionary 
character; it being always understood, that persons who are sup¬ 
ported by missionary funds, are bound to do all in their power to 
promote the cause in which they are engaged, while employed in 
missionary service; and when providentially thrown out of that 
service, they are bound to do what they can to support themselves. 
In all appropriations to this class of persons, the Prudential Com¬ 
mittee shall act according to the circumstances of each case until 
a regular and permanent system shall be adopted by the Board, 
and shall have a strict regard to economy. 

8. A separate fund shall be established for the support of dis¬ 
abled missionaries and assistant missionaries and for the widows 
and children of missionaries and assistant missionaries;—to be 
constituted in the following manner: 

(1) By donations from missionaries and assistant missiona¬ 
ries on their entering upon missionary service; which dona¬ 
tions shall be preserved and invested by the Board in the most 
prudent manner, and shall be reserved for the use, in the first 
instance, of the donors themselves and their families, should 
need require, but if not required for the donors and their fam¬ 
ilies, they shall form part of a permanent fund the interest of 
which alone shall be applied to the purposes here contem¬ 
plated. 

(2.) By donations and legacies, which shall be given for this 
specific object. 

(3.) By occasional grants, when necessary, from the general 
treasury of the Board. 

9. The Board will not object to sending the children of any 
missionary or assistant missionary to the United States, whose 
friends shall pay the expense of the passage, and make suitable 
provision for the support and education of the children in this 
country. 

10. In case children are left without either parent, and there 
is no missionary family, or Christian friend, or guardian, by whom 
such children could be well taken care of in the mission, the 
Board will then authorize the removal of the children to this 
country. 

11. The allowances made on account of the children of living 
missionaries or assistant missionaries in the service ol the Board, 
wherever the children may be educated, shall be charged to the 
mission to which the parents belong. 

12. The allowance made on account of orphan children shall, 
in all ordinary cases, be charged to the mission to which the pa¬ 
rents belonged at the time of their decease. 

13. To children who shall hereafter be sent to this country 
without charge to the Board, the Prudential Committee may make 


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allowances, when they shall deem it necessary for the support and 
education of the children, to the amount which would have 
been allowed for them, had they continued at the missionary sta¬ 
tion. 

14. The Board regard it as not consistent with the multiplied 
cares and duties of the Prudential Committee, for them to under¬ 
take the guardianship of the children sent to this country for edu¬ 
cation. 

VI. The Missions. 

1. A majority of missionaries and assistant missionaries in any 
mission shall, in their regular meetings, decide all questions that 
may arise in regard to their proceedings and conduct, in which 
the mission is interested, the decision being subject to the revision 
of the Prudential Committee. At such meetings every male mis¬ 
sionary and assistant missionary present, having arrived at the age 
of twenty-one years, is entitled to a vote. 

2. It shall be a standing rule, applicable to all missionaries and 
agents of the Board, that real estate shall not be purchased at the 
expense of the Board, nor money loaned belonging to the Board, 
without the express permission of the Prudential Committee pre¬ 
viously obtained. 

VII. Permanent Fund for the support of officers. 

The permanent funds for Corresponding Secretary and Treas¬ 
urer, heretofore kept distinct, shall be merged in one, and be called 
the “Fund for support of Officers and the avails of this fund 
shall be appropriated to the support of the Secretaries and the 
Treasurer of the Board, at the discretion of the Prudential Com¬ 
mittee; provided that a strict regard be had to the intentions of 
donors in such appropriations. 

VIII. Library of the Board, curiosities, etc. 

1. The Library of the Board shall be regarded as embracing 
the books, maps, manuscripts, pictures, &,c. at the Missionary 
Rooms, and all the books, maps, &c. appropriated to the use of 
the several missions, and not included in the original outfit of the 
missionaries, nor purchased at their private expense. The Libra¬ 
ry at the Rooms, shall be placed in charge of a librarian appointed 
by the Prudential Committee; and those of the several missions, 
shall be placed in charge of a librarian appointed, in ordinary cases, 
by the mission itself, who shall be accountable for the books to the 
mission and to the Prudential Committee. 

2. The curiosities deposited in the Missionary Rooms, and con¬ 
sisting of idol gods and other objects of superstition, together with 
specimens in natural history, &,c. interesting on account of their 
being brought from countries which are fields for missionary exer¬ 
tion, shall be carefully preserved, arranged, and labelled, and kept 


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in a room provided for the purpose, under the direction of the 
Prudential Committee. 

IX. Intercourse with other societies, and with eccle¬ 


siastical BODIES. 


1. A friendly intercourse shall be maintained with other pro- 
testant societies in this and other lands, which are engaged in the 
benevolent design of propagating the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

2. The Board will send to the General Assembly of the Pres¬ 
byterian Church of the United States, to the Synod of the Reform¬ 
ed Dutch Church, and to the several General Associations in the 
New England States, as many copies of the annual Report and 
other printed documents, as shall be sufficient to furnish those 
bodies with the means of information with regard to the state and 
necessities of the Board, its operations, and the success which God 
may grant to its exertions. 


All bye-laws and resolutions heretofore adopted by the Board 
are annulled, so far as they are inconsistent with those here em¬ 
bodied. 


CORPORATE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. 


[January, 1833.] 


MASSACHUSETTS. 
William Bartlet, Esq. 


lion. Charles Marsh, 

Rev. Joshua Bates, D. D. 


NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Rev. John Hubbard Church, D.D. 
Hon. George Sullivan, 

Rev. Nathan Lord, D. D. 


Gen. Henry Sewall, 

Rev. William Allen, D. D. 
Rev. Bennet Tyler, D. D. 


Rev. Enoch Pond. 


VERMONT. 


MAINE. 


Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D. D. 
Hon. William Reed, 

Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D. 
Rev. John Codman, D. D. 
Samuel Hubbard, LL. D. 

Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D. 
John Tappan, Esq, 

Hon. Lewis Strong, 

Rev. Warren Fay, D. D. 

R ev. Justin Edwards, D. D. 
Samuel T. Armstrong, Esq. 

Rev. Benjamin B. Wisner, D. D. 
Henry Hill, Esq. 

Rev. Rufus Anderson, 

Mr. David Greene, 

Mr. Charles Stoddard. 





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CORPORATE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. 


CONNECTICUT. 

John Cotton Smith, LL. D. 

Rev. Calvin Chapin, D. D. 

Rev. Jeremiah Day, D. D. LL.D. 
Rev. Noah Porter, D. D. 

NEW YORK. 

Egbert Benson, LL. D. 

Stephen Van Rensselaer, LL. D. 
Rev. David Porter, D. D. 

Nath’l W. Howell, LL. D. 

Jonas Platt, LL. D. 

Rev. James Richards, D. D. 
Rev. Alexander Proudfit, D. D. 
Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D. 

Rev. Henry Davis, D. D. 
Zechariah Lewis, Esq. 

Orrin Day, Esq. 

Rev. Gardiner Spring, D. D. 
Rev. William Me Murray, D.D. 
John Nitchie, Esq. 

Rev. Thomas De Witt, D. D. 
Eleazar Lord, Esq. 

S. Y. S. Wilder, Esq. 

Rev. Nathan S. S. Beman, 

Rev. Cornelius C. Cuyler, D. D. 
Rev. John Ludlow, D. D. 


Hon. Peter D. Vroom, 

Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen. 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

Rev. Ashbel Green, D. D. 
Robert Ralston, Esq. 

Thomas Bradford, Jr. Esq. 

Rev. Thomas Me Auley, D. D. 
Samuel Agnew, M. D. 

Rev. William Neill, D. D. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
Joseph Nourse, Esq. 

VIRGINIA. 

Rev. George A. Baxter, D. D. 
Gen. John H. Cocke, 

William Maxwell, Esq. 

SOUTH CAROLINA. 

Rev. Benjamin M. Palmer, D. D. 

GEORGIA. 

John Cumming, M. D. 

Rev. Moses Waddell, D. D. 

TENNESSEE. 

Rev. Charles Coffin, D. D. 
KENTUCKY. 

Rev. Gideon Blackburn, D. D. 


NEW JERSEY. 

Rev. Philip Milledoler, D. D. 
Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D. 

Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D. 
Rev. James Carnahan, D. D. 
Rev. John Me Dowell, D. D. 


OHIO. 

Rev. Robert G. Wilson, D. D. 
Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D. 
Rev. James Hoge, D. D. 


The following persons are deceased. 


MATNE. 

Rev. Jesse Appleton, D. D. 
Rev. Edward Payson, D. D. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
John Langdon, LL. D, 

Rev. Seth Payson, D. D. 

Hon. Thomas W. Thompson. 


MASSACHUSETTS. 

Rev. Joseph Lyman, D. D. 

Rev. Samuel Spring, D. D. 

Hon. William Phillips, 

Hon. John Hooker, 

Rev. Zephaniah S. Moore, D. D. 
Rev. Samuel Worcester, D. D. 
Rev. Jedediah Morse, D. D. 



OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 


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Rev. Samuel Austin, D. D. 
Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. 

Rev. Elias Cornelius, D. D. 

RHODE ISLAND. 

Hon. William Jones. 

CONNECTICUT. 

Gen. Jedediah Huntington, 

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John Treadwell, LL. D. 
Rev.TimothyDwight,D.D. LL.D. 

NEW YORK. 

John Jay, LL. D. 


Col. Henry Lincklaen, 

Divie Bethune, Esq. 

Col. Henry Rutgers, 

Col. Richard Varick. 

NEW JERSEY. 

Elias Boudinot, LL. D. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
Elias Boudinot Caldwell, Esq. 

VIRGINIA. 

Rev. John H. Rice, D. D. 


The number of corporate members is, - - - - 75 

The number of corresponding members, - - - - 21 
The number of honorary members, ----- 831 


Total,.927 


OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 


.^-"John Cotton Smith, LL. D., President; 

Stephen Van Rensselaer, LL. D., Vice President; 
Rev. Calvin Chapin, D. D., Recording Secretary; 


Hon. William Reed, 

Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D., 
Samuel Hubbard, LL. D., 

Rev. Warren Fay, D. D., 

Samuel T. Armstrong, Esq., 

Rev. Benjamin B. Wisner, D. D., 
Mr. Charles Stoddard, 


r» Prudential Committee; 


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Rev. Benjamin B. Wisner, \ 

Rev. Rufus Anderson, > Secretaries for Correspondence; 

Mr. David Greene, ) 


Henry Hill, Esq., Treasurer; 

John Tappan, Esq., t Auditors 

William J. Hubbard, Esq. ] ' 







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AGENTS, MISSIONS, STATIONS, ETC. 


GENERAL AGENTS OF THE BOARD. 


Agency for New England: —Rev. Horatio Bardwell. 
New York Agency: —Rev. Chauncey Eddy. 

Agency for the T Vcstern States: —Rev. Artemas Bullard. 


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MISSIONS, STATIONS, MISSIONARIES, SCHOOLS, 

CHURCHES, etc. 


MISSIONS. 

Stations. 

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Physicians. 

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Teachers. 

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2 

6 


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7 

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14 

34 

1485 455 

1940 

4 

Ceylon .... 

5 

6 



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6 

3 

28 

43 

98 

3043 

607 

3650 

183 

S. R. As : a . . . 

2 

2 



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# 



2 

# 



# 


Mediterranean 

4 

11 


1 

# 

# 

10 



22 

11 



500 


8audwirh Islands 

7 

24 

2 

2 

3 


31 



62 

1103 



52882 

512 

Cherokees . 

12 

8 

1 

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5 

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27 

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2 

52 

11 



312 

238 

Cldckn«aws 

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5 



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3 



55 

93 

Choctaws . . . 

7 

4 

. 


4 

4 

12 


. 

24 

5 



102 

300 

Crocks .... 

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. 

1 


# 


1 


# 

2 

# 




81 

Osa"’’* .... 

4 


. 


1 

6 

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19 

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102 

23 

N. W. Mission 

4 

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. 


3 

3 

15 


, 

26 

5 



196 

118 

N. Y. Indians . . 

4 

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1 

1 

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14 

3 



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197 

Missions, 12 

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4 

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18 

20 

131 

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first mission was established in the year 1814, is upwards of 
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